Olympics minister Tessa Jowell clearly spent too much time in the chill-out room absorbing whalesong from her iPod at the "star-studded" launch of the 2012 Olympics logo in London's Roundhouse earlier today, since she described the rather frightening graphic as both "an invitation and an inspiration" as VIPs battled to verbally …

When they start spending £million's printing this logo on to signs and stuff, please see that they are sent to your local vomitorium. German scat bints wouldn't be able to stomach that pile of festering wank.

Will be interesting to see all the photo-sensitive epileptics gibbering on the floor during the Olympic Games. Maybe they will award medals to the person who foams at the mouth the most?

Where can we place bets on the 2012 olympics being even more of a waste of life than the millenium dome?

Pink Man Takes a Dump

Oh, my...

Well, this is certainly...innovative. I agree with Patch Tuesday that it looks rather like a graffiti tag, though they do generally tend to be higher quality.

And how is this the 'heart of their vision'? Is their vision loud, and annoying? If this were a sound it would be a high-volume screech. This looks like the work of someone just out of design school, when they've got more youthful enthusiasm than experience and tend to overdo everything. Or perhaps this is their vision. Maybe this is going to be the Edgy Olympics.

And this is why Manchester still isn't getting a tram extension?

1) The one the government promised to help pay for for the commonwealth games back in 2002? Then reneged, promised the money again and then withdrew it yet again citing the Olympics. Paying for shit like this logo is obviously so much more important than functioning public transport. Sod pluribus e unum, how about omnibus in miles platting?

2) I'm a big fan of Wolff Olins' work in general and the sutff done for Orange in particular but I am getting pig sick of everything becoming a brand especially common cultural items like sport. And this logo is just another example of why the two don't mix. Last year Germany was awash in FIFA this and FIFA that (and what a crap logo Germany 2006 was) IOC is playing catch up. If they weren't all so busy sticking their noses in the trough then they would continue insisting on the primacy of the five coloured rings.

3) It is a crap design. Neither the Simpsons nor Keith Haring and certainly nothing of its own and garishly pink. Maybe this a reference to what we all look like when we go on holiday in sunny countries? Or maybe a reference to the pink pound? Whatever, I'm glad London is going to get the stick for this one!

Come on guys!

It takes a lot of skill to produce a logo that looks as crap the right way up as it does upside down.

Remember, they laughed at Van Gogh and at Picasso. They also laughed at Edmund Crump who painted a picture called "Bogies from my left nostril", and no doubt in fifty years time, people will still be laughing at the 2012 logo, long after the proceeds have been pissed against the wall.

OMG!

OMG! just another re stylized swastika! , either that or a perverted big wanger!

But then again , since the committee is on track to waste another few billion pounds plus or so funded by the tax payers , little wonder they are using such an evil creation!

What a pity the '48 committee isn't around anymore, to advise them on how to save money though!

I can just picture London in 2012 with machine gun toting armed police on every street corner , shooting the odd tourist to keep order and another two Territorial Army Divisions(the entire Army on the Rhine has been transferred to Iraq morass by then) and the rest complete with tired battle weary Main Battle Tanks parked at all the stadium entrances, and every one of them wearing this obscene arm band , in the vain hope that "Osama whatever!" will put in an appearance !

bored

I think...

Housewife in Curlers

Obviously it's Andy Capp's wife in a bout of reconciliation attempting to make amends by lifting up his beer belly....

My Goodness - if ever we needed proof of the damage that the internet has done to our collective psyche then this is it. By the way, I'm referring to what a lot of us can see in the logo, rather than what the original artist ( presumably ) intended.

2012 logo

You know I cant decide . Sometimes its a big haired person giving a blow job , then its London taking it up the cadbury highway but the two '2's remind me so much of the Nazi SS symbol that I can't get it out of my head .

Evolution.....

Wolff Olins only do 4 colours

I’m surprised that there isn’t a gradient as well. WO did the Abbey rebrand (before they dumped it 6 months later) as 4 different colour ways with a gradient meaning you had 4 different store fronts. Brand recognition anyone? No I thought not! Then they recycled that same 4 colour palette for the AOL Europe rebrand using fonts that didn’t scale online (for an online business) and used guess what a 4 colour palette and now it would appear they have trotted out the same rebrand with 4 colour ways and some posh power points probably to show how they are to make it dynamic.

In fact then I think they trotted out some other colour gradient in the AOL style (although to be faie that could have been Dave – the company set up by ex WO staffers)

Trumpet Bloke, blowing his own maybe

Money for old rope

I agree that maybe its flat representation on paper does nothing compared to it in its full, multi-media flow. But come on, even if something is designed for our modern online world and not just paper, polo shirts or the sides of a London bus, shouldnt it at least be a little more inspiring and creative than a multicoloured splodge?

400K for this seems to be nicely in line with Wolf Ollins' usual 're-invention' costs and at least, unlike the BT debacle where an old granny who did design back in the 1940s turned out to be the original designer of BT's trumpet man, at least the money hasn't been wasted on making something 'new' when it already existed.

Having seen people in senior positions at my county council swooning over a bunch of clip-art when deciding upon a new logo for something it is no surprise that we have ended up with this new Olympic logo. My company ended up designing the logo for almost no fee to save the council from wasting any more of our council tax. The public sector [and despite any commercial bent the Olympics is basically being steered by the public sector] in my experience is full of people with no taste, little idea of design, little idea of reality, no idea of how to wisely spend taxpayers money and is addicted to consultants. No surprise then that a bunch of jargon-talking 're-inventors' with swanky offices in New York and London managed to convince people that this pink pile of puke was 'modern, innovative, dynamic blah blah blah'

I think it looks like

WTF?

"It isn't just designed to look good embroidered onto corporate polo shirts."

But it isn't even designed to look good embroidered on a shirt. Multimedia, web 2.0, dynamically interactive, whalesong, blah, blah, blah, whatever, but something that could have been put on a shirt without people asking if it was supposed to be Macy Gray doing something obscene would have been a pretty good start...